News, announcements, updates, and happenings in the UVA Library

Unearthed: Examining the contents of a 111 year old time capsule

By Jeff Hill |
On September 12, 2020, the time capsule underneath the “At Ready”/“Johnny Reb” statue in front of the Albemarle County Courthouse came out of the ground after crews had carefully removed the tons of granite and bronze sitting over it.

Culture, engagement, and community, News and announcements, Preservation

Library Resource “Caribbean Newspapers” chronicles History of the West Indies through most of the 18th and 19th Centuries

By Mitch Farish |
The Library online resource "Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876" features publications from 22 islands, covering 150 years of Caribbean history (most of the 18th and 19th centuries) in more than 140 fully searchable titles.

Featured resources

Library Resource has full Color, Archival Quality scans of Time and Life Magazines, including Ads

By Mitch Farish |
1965 Life Magazine cover of civil rights protest across from the White House, with Andrew Jackson monument in the foreground.
New! The Library offers full issues of Time and Life magazine online, cover to cover with all pictures and ads intact.

Featured resources

Documenting and Preserving the Graffiti in Alderman Library’s Study Carrels

By Jeff Hill |
Ahead of a comprehensive renovation of Alderman Library that will affect most of the building, the students in the spring 2019 seminar course Literacy and Orality, taught by UVA Anthropology professor and documentary linguist Lise Dobrin, took it upon themselves to preserve an overlooked piece of UVA’s cultural record before it disappears: the scribbles, scratches, text, and art that for years have graced and defaced the library’s hidden study carrels.

Library stories, Renovation

Cutaway View of Renovated Main Library Shows Vision for Future

By Amber Lautigar Reichert |
The renovated space includes flexible areas for individual and group study and research throughout the building, as well as new elevators, bathrooms, and stairwells, and all-new mechanical infrastructure.

Renovation

UVA Library news from around the world

  • Virginia Living

    “Reading feeds every creative community,” says Dr. Leo Lo, UVA’s university librarian and dean of libraries. “It expands what people can imagine, improves how they communicate, and trains the patience needed to make original work. Libraries keep that creative fuel available to everyone.”

  • Inc.

    “The same quality that makes a book valuable as training data makes it likelier to be scarce in the world,” Leo Lo, university librarian and dean of libraries at the University of Virginia, told Inc.

  • Fine Books & Collections

    David R. Whitesell, who retired as curator in UVAs Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library in 2022, explains how pioneers of photographic processes in the 19th century changed how books were illustrated.

  • UVA Today

    Pat Oliphant, whose syndicated political cartoons anchored editorial pages in newspapers across the country from 1965 to 2015 – many of which are part of his work archived in the University of Virginia’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library –died Monday at the age of 90.

  • UVA Today

    The second floor of Shannon Library at the University of Virginia is home to a place where books go to get well. Or, at a minimum, usable.

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